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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 404505" data-attributes="member: 23">Red Joan (2018)

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My foreknowledge of the film was minimal, other than the vaguest of premises (British woman arrested for being a spy) and that it starred Judi Dench. The latter was plenty for me to dive in.

I&#039;m very glad I didn&#039;t read up on the film until afterwards, not because of spoilers - this is a difficult film to spoil -&nbsp; but because reviews don&#039;t seem to be too kind to it. Words like &quot;dull&quot; and &quot;mediocre&quot; seem to be the defaults, along with cries of &quot;wasted talent&quot;. For me, though, it was a perfectly fine way to spend an hour and forty.

Perhaps it helped that it&#039;s one of those kind of, almost true stories: that is to say it&#039;s inspired by a true person (Melita Norwood), but apparently has stuck that element onto a completely fictitious story and even changed all the names (presumably because it&#039;s so far away from the reality).

But never mind, because it&#039;s a pleasant film to watch. The period setting looks gorgeous (it came with the expected contemporary RP/SSB delivery in place of period-authentic pronunciation - with one main offender - but nothing intolerable). 

The best thing about the film was George Fenton&#039;s score whose name I&#039;ll forever associate with Shoestring (closely followed by Bergerac).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 404505, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Red Joan[/SIZE][/B] (2018) [IMG]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.fandango.com%2FImageRenderer%2F0%2F0%2Fredesign%2Fstatic%2Fimg%2Fdefault_poster.png%2F0%2Fimages%2Fmasterrepository%2Ffandango%2F216742%2FRedJoan2019.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=2ab4864feaddb29ae4264f7268e7f363d0c19523ad1bf62eb043e4958d680b10&ipo=images[/IMG] My foreknowledge of the film was minimal, other than the vaguest of premises (British woman arrested for being a spy) and that it starred Judi Dench. The latter was plenty for me to dive in. I'm very glad I didn't read up on the film until afterwards, not because of spoilers - this is a difficult film to spoil - but because reviews don't seem to be too kind to it. Words like "dull" and "mediocre" seem to be the defaults, along with cries of "wasted talent". For me, though, it was a perfectly fine way to spend an hour and forty. Perhaps it helped that it's one of those kind of, almost true stories: that is to say it's inspired by a true person (Melita Norwood), but apparently has stuck that element onto a completely fictitious story and even changed all the names (presumably because it's so far away from the reality). But never mind, because it's a pleasant film to watch. The period setting looks gorgeous (it came with the expected contemporary RP/SSB delivery in place of period-authentic pronunciation - with one main offender - but nothing intolerable). The best thing about the film was George Fenton's score whose name I'll forever associate with [I]Shoestring [/I](closely followed by [I]Bergerac[/I]).[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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